"toshau" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the Wapishana language, referring to the elected leader or chief of an Indigenous community in Guyana.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toshaus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "toshau (plural toshaus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Guyanese English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              122,
              128
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2010, John Kline, Ethics for International Business: Decision-Making in a Global Political Economy, illustrated edition, Routledge, page 217:",
          "text": "A month later, the first hournalists and TV cameras arrrive in Fairview, the Amerindian village where Mr. Allicock is the toshau (village captain).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, Clare Hindley, The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy, Routledge, page ???:",
          "text": "It is expected that visitors should bring a gift of food for the Toshau (village leader and head of the village council).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
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            [
              152,
              158
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018, Kirk Smock, Claire Antell, Guyana (Bradt Travel Guides), illustrated edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 226:",
          "text": "These arrangements can be made through Rainforest Tours (pages 63-4), the tourism committee of Morakabai (m 668 6249) or through the village captain or toshau as he is known by the villagers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The elected leader or chief of an indigenous village in Guyana, responsible for governance, administration, and representing the community's interests."
      ],
      "id": "en-toshau-en-noun-RsXrgud8",
      "qualifier": "Indigenous peoples",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Guyana, Indigenous peoples) The elected leader or chief of an indigenous village in Guyana, responsible for governance, administration, and representing the community's interests."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Guyana"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɒʃaʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toshau"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the Wapishana language, referring to the elected leader or chief of an Indigenous community in Guyana.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toshaus",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "toshau (plural toshaus)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Guyanese English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              122,
              128
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2010, John Kline, Ethics for International Business: Decision-Making in a Global Political Economy, illustrated edition, Routledge, page 217:",
          "text": "A month later, the first hournalists and TV cameras arrrive in Fairview, the Amerindian village where Mr. Allicock is the toshau (village captain).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Philip Sloan, Willy Legrand, Clare Hindley, The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy, Routledge, page ???:",
          "text": "It is expected that visitors should bring a gift of food for the Toshau (village leader and head of the village council).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              152,
              158
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2018, Kirk Smock, Claire Antell, Guyana (Bradt Travel Guides), illustrated edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 226:",
          "text": "These arrangements can be made through Rainforest Tours (pages 63-4), the tourism committee of Morakabai (m 668 6249) or through the village captain or toshau as he is known by the villagers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The elected leader or chief of an indigenous village in Guyana, responsible for governance, administration, and representing the community's interests."
      ],
      "qualifier": "Indigenous peoples",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Guyana, Indigenous peoples) The elected leader or chief of an indigenous village in Guyana, responsible for governance, administration, and representing the community's interests."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Guyana"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɒʃaʊ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toshau"
}